Elon Musk's Gulfstream G450 N450GG lands in Temple after 46-minute flight from Matamoros

Elon Musk's Gulfstream G450, tail N450GG, flew from General Servando Canales International Airport in Matamoros, Mexico, to Draughon Miller Central Texas Regional Airport in Temple, Texas, on Wednesday, October 28, 2026. The aircraft departed at 23:32 UTC and landed at 00:18 UTC, spending 46 minutes in the air. The great-circle distance between the two airports is 332 nautical miles, or about 382 miles.

The flight averaged a ground speed of 430 knots and reached a top speed of 493 knots at a maximum altitude of 30,000 feet. The aircraft burned an estimated 293 US gallons of fuel, producing about 2.8 metric tons of CO2, roughly the same as driving a car 6,978 miles. The Gulfstream G450 is a large business jet with a range of 4,350 nautical miles, a ceiling of 45,000 feet, and seating for up to 16 passengers. The flight used only 8 percent of the aircraft's range.

The Gulfstream G450 is an evolution of the GIV with aerodynamic improvements. Its top speed is Mach 0.88, or 476 knots. The aircraft burns an estimated 380 US gallons of fuel per hour.

This was the fourth landing at Temple in the tracking window from October 11 to October 28, 2026, for all of Elon Musk's aircraft. The previous landing at Temple was on October 23 by the same aircraft, the Gulfstream G450 N450GG. Austin is the home base on file for Elon Musk, and his usual destinations include Brownsville, San Jose, Los Angeles, West Palm Beach, Washington Dulles, and Lubbock. In the 30-day window, the owner's five Gulfstreams made 39 flights, with the most common destination being Los Angeles with eight landings. The aircraft's previous landing was at Port Isabel about one hour before this flight, and it had flown from Baltimore to Port Isabel earlier on October 27, a 3-hour 28-minute flight covering 1,298 nautical miles.

Temple is about 59 nautical miles from his home base at Austin Bergstrom International Airport. The arrival at Temple follows a pattern of short hops between Texas airports; on October 26, the same aircraft flew from Temple to Harlingen, a 43-minute flight covering 296 nautical miles.

In the 30-day tracking window, the owner's aircraft visited 23 airports in 3 countries and flew about 44,698 nautical miles. The longest leg in that window was a 4,716-nautical-mile flight from Luton, England, to Los Angeles on October 16 by the Gulfstream G550 N272BG. The owner's aircraft made six landings at Austin before this flight in the same window.

The departure airport in Matamoros has a longest runway of 7,546 feet and an elevation of 25 feet. The arrival airport in Temple has a longest runway of 7,000 feet and an elevation of 682 feet.

The most common destinations for all of the owner's aircraft in that window were Los Angeles with eight landings, Austin with six, and Harlingen with four.

This flight ended at a small regional airport in central Texas, close to the owner's home base, after a brief trip to Matamoros, just south of the Texas border.